Personal broadcasting

Personal broadcasting is a term for participatory journalism that focuses on television webcasting over the internet and mobile internet.  

The Internet has made it possible for almost anyone to create their own web-based, online radio station. For a small investment, it is now possible to stream music or talk show to a global audience. For educational organizations and other qualifying groups, many broadcasting options are available like

•   Low Power FM Broadcasts
•   Create Your Own Radio Show
•   Create Internet Radio

Benefits of personal broadcasting 

•  Privacy and Security: Users invite subscribers, such as family and friends, who are the only people who can access a channel’s password-protected media. 

• Convenience for Users: After a simple download and installation, users simply save files to a folder associated with the channel, and links are automatically fed to the subscriber. Any time a file is saved or edited, the channel’s links are automatically updated. Any type of file can be securely shared in a channel, including online media such as YouTube videos and online music.

• Convenience for Subscribers: Subscribers do not have to seek out their friend or family members’ updates on multiple Web sites. Instead, it automatically comes to them in convenient, well-visited places: a personalized homepage such as My Yahoo or My AOL, a social networking site, in Microsoft Vista’s Sidebar, or aWeb browser bookmark. Anyone with Internet access can receive Private Netcasting channels, on their computer or mobile device. The subscriber does not need to install anything.

• Organization: Users can easily arrange the sequence of their shared media to tell a story or to have the most recent appear noticeably on top. They can create separate channels by audience, such as a Joke Channel for friends, a Hobby Channel for other enthusiasts and a Family Channel for the extended family.

• Unlimited Sharing: Consumers can share an unlimited amount of personal media with their subscribers, overcoming the size limitations of alternative systems. Subscribers always will get the most popular and newest content “On Demand,” even if the user’s PC is turned off. 

• Feedback Mechanisms Consistent with Web 2.0: Each media item has its own discussion thread enabling focused communication between the user and all channel subscribers. Users can review a channel’s “Ratings” which tracks how many times a media item has been viewed or commented upon, to help them learn which are most popular for future personal broadcasts.

Example of Personal broadcasting media - 

EnjoyMyMedia is the world’s first personal broadcasting service
Its features are

•  Its free
•  It Enables consumers to conveniently and securely broadcast personal multimedia—photos, videos, audio, documents or any other file—over the Internet in private, secure channels.
•  Private Netcasting turns the act of saving a file into a way to stay connected, and is the safest and simplest way to keep friends and family updated.
•  Transforms PC folders into broadcast channels.
•  Save any file to a folder, and the files are automatically shared with invited family and friends, who do not need to install any software. 
• Subscribers access the passwordprotected channels throughMy Yahoo, iGoogle, My AOL, Microsoft Vista’s Sidebar, Facebook, current Internet browsers or any other RSS-compliant system. The digital media market has been focused on sharing with the world in a one-to-many model, including distributing to a consumer’s 1,000 “closest friends” on a social networking site, or video sharing.